Comments on: Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell triumph in Melbourne station competitionhttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/08/flinders-street-station-by-herzog-de-meuron-hassell/
architecture and design magazineTue, 03 Mar 2015 14:37:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1By: Markushttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/08/flinders-street-station-by-herzog-de-meuron-hassell/comment-page-1/#comment-1235560
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:57:00 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=343321#comment-1235560Well I’m sure the celebrity chef on the ‘expert’ panel was so much more qualified to comment on the proposals rather than another member of the public.

We can all heave a sigh of relief that the hoi polloi that would use and interact with this structure have been politely ignored. What would the great unwashed know about what’s good for them and their city in an architectural sense – such apparent nonsense.

Thankfully this doesn’t occur in middle eastern and central asian countries and communist China where the majority of the major projects are nowadays. Architects can slap their name on whatever phallic monument that the dictators decree worthy of their ambition.

We should be all very happy that our visions will be realised without such meddlesome democratic interference.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:06:00 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=343321#comment-1235448There is nothing inherently wrong with the design, but this opposite federation square will be like teeth gnashing together. The student’s design was popular with the public because it attempted to balance out the square’s harshness.

It’s interesting also that the government asked for proposals to include residential and commercial to offset the cost of the construction for which the government has yet to allocate any funding towards.

This scheme affords the least space to this. The jury noted this in their published reasons awarding the prize that this would need to be addressed, i.e. the west end will have some sort of high-rise slapped on, which will destroy the scale and simple lines of the design. Otherwise it will never be built.

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Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:49:00 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=343321#comment-1234411Simple, elegant, and abstract geometries created with an emphasis on materiality and details, and applied to a unique urban context: this is the Herzog & de Meuron I love.

A truly invigorating projecting that blends together multiple programs to create a world class architectural site. Again, incredibly glad they won!